The Economics of Paradise On the Onset of Modernity in Antiquity
This book searches for the origins of modern thinking in one of the best-known stories of our cultural heritage. By applying institutional and constitutional economics to biblical interpretation, it uses new approach to reconstruct the Paradise story. The
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Also by Sigmund A. Wagner-Tsukamoto UNDERSTANDING GREEN CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR HUMAN NATURE AND ORGANIZATION THEORY IS GOD AN ECONOMIST?
The Economics of Paradise On the Onset of Modernity in Antiquity Sigmund A. Wagner-Tsukamoto
© Sigmund Wagner-Tsukamoto 2015
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To my wife and sons, M, M, and N, and to the memory of my grandparents
Contents List of Figures
xii
Preface
xiii
Acknowledgements
xiv
Introduction
1
Prologue: Genesis 2–3
9
1 Why and How to Study the Paradise Story in Economic Terms 1.1 Key questions, themes and theses of the book: conflict, anarchy and capital exchange in paradise Questioning the dualism thesis The ‘old’ unitary thesis for the Old Testament: is a ‘new’ unitary thesis feasible? ‘Permissibility’ of economic research on the Old Testament 1.2 The constitutional and institutional economic approach to analysing the breakdown of co-operation: a brief introduction Heuristic models of constitutional and institutional economics: dilemma structure and homo economicus Organizational/group-based conflict model ‘Capitalist’ problems inside paradise: capital contribution/distribution and capital
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